Studies on Agreement -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- 1. The status of agreement -- 2. The theoretical status of agreement -- 2.1. Agreement and functional heads -- 2.2. Uninterpretable agreement and AGREE -- 2.3. The consequences of agreement -- 3. The problems -- Notes -- References -- Capeverdean DP-internal number agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. DP-internal number agreement -- 2.1. The data -- 2.2. Assumptions -- 2.3. A DM account for DP-internal number agreement in CV -- 3. A relation with verbal agreement -- 3.1. Strong V-feature of I and some parametric values -- 3.2. V-features and the licensing of pro -- 3.3. A relation of this with DP-internal number agreement -- 4. The quantifier tudu -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Nominal and verbal agreement in Portuguese -- Introduction -- 1. The facts -- 1.1. DP-internal number agreement -- 1.2. Subject-verb agreement -- 1.3. Summary -- 2. Proposal -- 3. Further predictions -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Proleptic agreement as a good design property -- 1. Proleptic (`anticipatory') agreement and (im)perfection -- 2. Proleptic agreement as a systematic design property -- 3. Proleptic agreement as a cross-linguistic phenomenon -- 4. Predicate displacement within the adjective phrase: Evidence from Romanian -- 5. Predicate displacement within the Dutch adjectival phrase -- 6. Proleptic agreement -- 7. -e in non-agreeing contexts -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Anti-agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Agreement patterns in Hungarian -- 2.1. Agreement -- 2.2. Coordination and agreement -- 2.3. R-expressions and agreement -- 3. Agree and agreement -- 3.1. Agree in syntax -- 3.2. Agreement in morphology -- 4. Cyclicity in agreement -- 4.1. Phases -- 4.2. Spell-out domains as morphological units.

4.3. Turkish possessives -- 5. Welsh -- 6. Movement-related anti-agreement phenomena -- 6.1. Local agreement only -- 6.2. Local anti-agreement only -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The acquisition of the standard EPP in Dutch and French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Steps in the acquisition of the EPP -- 2.1. The early EPP -- 2.2. Early EPP and mode-implied subjects -- 3. The 4 EPP steps in Dutch and French -- 3.1. First step: I-marking and early EPP -- 3.2. I-marking precedes D-marking -- 3.3. Second step: D-marking and free anaphors -- 3.4. Third step: phi-oppositions on subject and dummy subjects -- 3.5. Fourth step: Agreement between subject and finite verb -- 4. Speed of acquisition and evidence frames -- 4.1. The EPP as evidence frame -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Number specification -- A new view on first conjunct agreement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Assumptions -- 2.1. Features and feature checking -- 2.2. Case and agreement -- 2.3. Coordination -- 3. FCA versus FA: Data -- 3.1. Complementizer agreement -- 3.2. FCA and FA -- 3.3. Summary -- 4. FCA versus FA: An analysis -- 4.1. The absence of FCA in the verbal paradigm -- 4.2. The presence of FA in the verbal paradigm -- 4.3. The presence of FCA in the complementizer paradigm -- 4.4. FA in the complementizer paradigm -- 5. Summary & conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Agreement: The (unique and local) syntactic and morphological licenser of subject Case* -- 1. Introduction and summary -- 2. Basic facts: Correlation between overt agreement and subject Case in different types of clauses -- 2.1. Agreement in verbal clauses and its effects on subject Case -- 2.2. Nominalized argument clause types -- 2.3. Correlations between subject Case and Agr -- 3. Adjunct clauses -- 3.1. Subjunctive adjunct clauses -- 3.2. Indicative adjunct clauses (with Agr).

4. An account of subject Case -- 5. Default Case -- 6. Rival accounts -- 6.1. The external N-head hypothesis -- 6.2. Mood/Modality as expressed by Agr -- 7. An interesting minimal pair -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Probes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The state of the art -- 2.1. Pre- and early minimalist accounts for the lack of agreement with postverbal subjects -- 2.2. The operation Agree -- 3. Applying the probe approach to our data -- 4. The problem of Case assignment -- 4.1. Defective T as a Case assigner? -- 4.2. Additional evidence: The personal infinitive construction -- 5. Conclusion and further remarks -- Notes -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Appendix -- Medieval Spanish -- Classical Spanish -- Medieval varieties of other Romance languages -- Modern Romance varieties -- Syntactic agreement across language modalities -- 1. Syntactic organization of ASL -- 1.1. Non-manual expressions of syntactic features over phrasal domains -- 1.2. Focus -- 1.3. Wh-movement -- 2. Agreement -- 2.1. Person distinctions -- 2.2. Number -- 2.3. Distribution of non-manual markings of subject and object agreement -- 3. Reanalysis of head tilt as marker of focus -- 3.1. Predicate focus -- 3.2. Interaction with wh-movement -- 3.3. Previous observations revisited -- 3.4. Research in progress -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- On the relation of [gender] Agreement -- Introduction -- 1. The data -- 1.1. Friulian and standard Italian compared -- 1.2. Some reflections on agreement features -- 1.3. PtPPL agreement: A semantic or syntatcic phenomenon? -- 2. Theoretical claims -- 3. Tests with adverbials -- 3.1. Cinque's system and verb movement -- 3.2. Tests -- 3.3. An interpretation -- 4. Towards an account of PtPPL agreement -- 5. One type of agreement? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References.

The (dis)association of Tense, phi-features EPP and nominative Case -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The distribution of inflected infinitives, na-clauses and personal infinitives -- 3. The proposal -- 3.1. Evidence from subject raising out of aspectual subjunctives and inflected infinitives -- 3.2. Evidence from subject raising out of passivised perception complements -- 3.3. Evidence from subject raising out of causative complements -- 3.4. A control case: Evidence from object raising out of complex adjectival constructions -- 3.5. Evidence from personal infinitives -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Head-Level and Chain-Level constraints on spellout -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clitic-Agreement Complementarity in Woolford (2003) -- 3. Clitic-Agreement Doubling -- 4. Clitic-Agreement Doubling in Menominee -- 5. Head-Level and Chain-Level constraints on Spellout -- 6. The 3rd-person restriction in Menominee -- 7. Selayarese revisited -- 8. A partial typology for cross-referencing -- 9. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.